tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post2075046892307235797..comments2024-03-24T09:13:28.758+00:00Comments on The Plashing Vole: A stupid question for the super-researchersThe Plashing Volehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-43960796037311778762012-09-05T12:14:39.019+01:002012-09-05T12:14:39.019+01:00moi???moi???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-72686463409037887742012-09-05T11:04:33.741+01:002012-09-05T11:04:33.741+01:00Thanks, you two (guessing one of you is Josiane). ...Thanks, you two (guessing one of you is Josiane). It certainly looms large in my university nightmares.<br /><br />Martin Eve, a very wise man, has posted some really good ideas to cope with Citation Anxiety:<br /><br />https://www.martineve.com/2012/09/05/keeping-up-with-research-in-response-to-plashingvole/The Plashing Volehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-73930704068422806522012-09-04T19:58:44.361+01:002012-09-04T19:58:44.361+01:00Once again I have nothing to add and can't hel...Once again I have nothing to add and can't help here. <br /><br />Just the comment above caught my eye.<br /><br />a) The use of "A", which is what the anonymous Vole (lol) uses for his e-mail sign-off.<br /><br />b) The knowledge that Vole has a Mac<br /><br />c) The use of the name "Aidan" - whoever that is.<br /><br />d) The knowledge that Vole has too many books.<br /><br />ANONYMOUS IS A UNI PERSON! But who....? <br /><br />http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_552/1288607606g2ls3P.jpgEwarwoowarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01188994060142858403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-12908429187356299992012-09-04T19:47:49.607+01:002012-09-04T19:47:49.607+01:00Hey A!
I'd like to say that there is an easy ...Hey A!<br /><br />I'd like to say that there is an easy answer to your question, and that it is simply the click of a key on your MAC, but in truth, although the internet has made it easier for us to find relevant research articles in a specific field, there will always be obscure journals and publications which we won't ever read or hear about that may say something (ir)relevant about that topic. If it's really important, you'll come across it somehow. Because what I'm interested in is humour, it is virtually impossible to read (or understand) everything which is being -and has been written- on the topic, in philosophy, literature, linguistics, psychology etc. <br /><br />I used to have this kind of anxiety every time I walked into a bookshop, thinking I would never be able to read all there was to read that I SHOULD be reading. I still have not read Don Quixote, and it's been on my list of 'to-read' books for many years. <br /><br />Now, I'm glad that I won't have read everything by the time I retire (whenever that will be!) so I have years of reading ahead of me. And, I'm looking forward to re-reading stuff I'll have forgotten about when my memory fails me!<br /><br />Chillax Aidan, you have too many books as it is!<br /><br />PS: Hope you get to read this, I am on my fourth attempt to prove I'm not a robot. I am now having doubts myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-67401994515534503082012-09-04T16:44:09.311+01:002012-09-04T16:44:09.311+01:00I can't help you there Voley, but I've oft...I can't help you there Voley, but I've often wondered about that subject when it comes to fiction writing.<br /><br />If I wrote a short story blissfully unaware of anyone writing anything similar, what would I do when the Ghanian author Tsotsobe Mwandari-Essien gets in touch with me saying that I had plagiarised his 2005 work 'The Essence of Jim Davidson'. How exactly can you prove innocence?Ewarwoowarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01188994060142858403noreply@blogger.com